Trump’s Border Wall Will Be An Ecological DISASTER

There are many reasons why Americans object to president Donald Trump’s proposition of building a wall on the Mexican border with the United States. Many cite funding and the high cost as a con, while others are pointing out that it’s, quite simply, an ecological disaster.

DHS is now eyeing unfenced areas in two Texas wildlife refuges that conservationists consider some of the most ecologically valuable areas on the border. These areas are home to armadillos and bobcats. If a wall were to slice through these ecosystems, it could cause irreversible damage to the plants and animals already under serious threat living there.

According to EconewsMedia.org, the political boundary between the US and Mexico stretches 2,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, there are three mountain chains, the two largest deserts in North America, vast cattle ranches, a handful of cities and their sprawling suburbs, and the Southern section of the mighty Rio Grande river.

“People think of deserts as barren lands and flat sand dunes with nothing there,” Sergio Avila, a conservation scientist at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, says. “But deserts are very diverse and rich in life.”